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F. MESKER & H. F. EDWARDS. PLATE METAL COLUMN.

Patented July 10, 1888.

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UNITED STATES ATENT FRANK MESKER AND HENRY F. EDWARDS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. n

PLATE=METAL COLUMN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 385,767, dated July 10, 1888.

Application filed January 28, 1888. Serial No, 262,274. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANK MEsKER and HENRY F. Enwltnns, of St. Louis, Missouri, have jointly made a new and useful Improvement in Plate-Metal Columns, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The improvement relates to columns used in buildingfronts, and composed, mainly, of sheets and angle irons.

The improvement consists in the special shape and combination of the parts composing the column, substantially as is hereinafter described and claimed, and as is illustrated in the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the improved column as before being ornamented; Fig. 2, a side elevation of the same; Fig. 3, avvertical section of the column ornamented; Fig. 4, a view in perspective, from its front, ofthe ornamented column; Fig. 5, a vertical section upon an enlarged scale, showing in detached parts the front portion of the ornamented column; and Fig. 6, a horizontal section, upon an enlarged scale, on the line 6 6 of Fig. 2.

The same letters ofreference denote the same parts.

spectively riveted to the cheeks at the rear edge thereof, and the filling-piece is secured to the angle-irons, substantially as shown in Fig. 6. The ornamental 'portions E F G, each or all of them, can be attached to the column face, substantially as shown.

XVe claim The herein-described column, the same consisting of the face, the two cheeks, the two angleirons, and the filling-piece, said checks at the front edge thereof each having a flange riveted to the face, and said angleirons being secured to the cheeks at the rear edge thereof and also to said fillingpiece.

FRANK MESKER. HENRY F. EDWARDS.

XVitnesses:

B. T. MEsKEn, O. D. MooDY. 

